Information for International Postgraduate enquiries

It is strongly advised you study the Research projects the school offers. You can then contact the relevant Research leader directly. Once you have an agreed supervisor you can then send them a full C.V. and academic transcripts (in English).

Compliance

• You may need to clarify your qualifications by producing H1 Equivalence. H1 Equivalence means your degree is equivalent to an Australian Honours 1st class degree (proof your final year of study was at least 50% research). Where an applicant does not hold a minimum qualification of at least a bachelor's degree with first class honours (H1), the faculty will request that the applicant complete an Honours 1 Equivalence Assessment form as an attachment to their application for admission to candidature.
• Applicants need to have excellent academic grades and at least one or more publications in an international journal with you being the main author. It is important to send all academic transcripts referee reports and publications you have as soon as possible so that I can deduce if you are H1 equivalent.
  http://mrgs.monash.edu.au/scholarships/selection/proc13.html
• Other requirements and application details such as the English levels (Graduate courses require an IELTS total academic score of at least 6.5 and a total of 6 in individual units or equivalent, and some graduate courses require a higher score.) information can be found on the Monash research graduate school (MRGS) homepage.
  http://www.monash.edu.au/study/international/entry-requirements-english.html

Scholarships

Applicants for both scholarships explained below are very competitive and to be successful in winning a scholarship you would need to have excellent academic grades.

As an international applicant you can apply for two scholarships, one to pay international tuition fees that apply to international postgraduate students called the Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (called IPRS)
http://www.mrgs.monash.edu.au/scholarships/tuition/iprs.html

Or Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (called MIPRS)
http://www.mrgs.monash.edu.au/scholarships/tuition/miprs.html

And one to help with living expenses

Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS)
http://www.mrgs.monash.edu.au/scholarships/stipend/mgs.html
this is worth approximately AUD$20k per year for the usual 3 years of a PhD candidature and 2 years for an MSc.

The Final Scholarship application closing date is 31 October 2009.

Contact Details;
Mrs Jean Pettigrew
PO Box 27,
School of Physics,
Monash University, Australia 3800
Email: Jean.Pettigrew@sci.monash.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9905 3651
Fax : +61 3 9905 3637